B1257 crash in North Yorkshire on 2 December 2017 at 07:38 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series crashed on the B1257 in North Yorkshire at 07:38 on Saturday 2 December 2017. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Dec 2017
- Saturday, 07:38
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 5 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.29271, longitude -1.13522, in the YO62 postcode district. The location was in the former Ryedale district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Yorkshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017120215747
- Council area
- North Yorkshire
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1257
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 66 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 August 2016.
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 1000 crash on the B1257 in North Yorkshire, 18 August 2016
66 m awayRef 2016120149444
Serious
Kawasaki EX500 crash on the B1257 in North Yorkshire, 22 June 2008
89 m awayRef 2008120050330
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1257 in North Yorkshire, 2 July 1999
89 m awayRef 1999121830215
Slight
Honda CBR1000RR crash on the B1257 in North Yorkshire, 7 July 2019
90 m awayRef 2019121900890
Serious
Aprilia crash on the A1257 in North Yorkshire, 27 September 1997
92 m awayRef 1997122700611
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1257 in North Yorkshire, 26 May 2017
92 m awayRef 2017120090796
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2017120215747 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Yorkshire road accident statistics for 2017.